On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Jussi Piitulainen <jpiit...@ling.helsinki.fi> wrote: > How far do you want to go? Is "a b + c" the same as "a(b) + c" or the > same as "a(b + c)"?
I think there is only one practical interpretation, the one that all shells I'm familiar with have adopted: a(b, +, c) > And I don't really want to know which it is. I prefer parentheses. > They are not nearly as fragile. Agreed. Without parens, splitting the command line arguments on white space is the only non-fragile way to do things. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list